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Amazon is not a startup.

Oh, wow. Better than I imagined.

Trump imagines himself a real estate magnate who builds luxury vacation properties, this might genuinely be one of his own ideas this time. It's terrible enough that I'd believe it.

AI would be able to do a good first pass on it. Except that an AI that was able to reliably recognize child porn would be a useful tool for creating child porn, so maybe don't advertise that you've got one on the job.

I expect that a lot of this isn't "bowing down to Trump", it's just people going "oh good, I can stop wasting money on initiatives I didn't really believe in without facing backlash over it."

generative ai though? absolutely not, we need to burn it down.

If it's really not useful then there's no need to burn it down. It's expensive to run so anyone using it must just be burning money themselves.

That's not true, though. I know it's not true because I'm making extensive use of AI myself, and it is indeed useful. I even run local models for some of the tasks I use AI with. I can assure you it's not going away because I have all the tools I need to keep on using it indefinitely, even if for some reason the companies producing this stuff all shut down or stopped right this moment.

It may not be useful to you, and that's fine - use it or don't, it's up to you. But it's not going away because other people do want to use it for various things.

Abolition is simply not going to happen, though. It's not a realistic goal. AI has proven to be useful and enough technology has been released as open source that it's going to continue to be developed even if the big obvious targets like OpenAI stop.

Okay, so you don't collaborate with them, and they carry on developing AI their own way without your input. Probably not going to lead to the outcome you hope for.

This is a problem I see for a lot of the stridently anti-AI commenters I've encountered both here and on Reddit; all they want is for AI to not exist, and refuse to engage in any way beyond that. But AI does exist, it's not going to "go away", and so by approaching it that way they give up any opportunity to influence it.

Sure would have been nice if Obama or Biden had actually closed Guantanamo Bay when they had the chance.

I liked to find silver linings where I can, and what I'm hoping is that when the shambles of the American government finally get back into Democratic hands (or whatever opposition party replaces them, at this point) there will finally be a realization that actual for real change is needed. Democratic politicians have been just treading water for decades now.

The model has no idea how much time has passed unless it is explicitly told what time has passed. They're not capable of forming new memories during routine operation, the black box remains immutable unless you explicitly do additional training on it - in which case you're supply it with the training materials yourself and you know exactly what's in them. People who use LLMs for coding already know they're not perfect, and they're not going to be all that helpful unless you know enough of the programming language to know what it's trying to do. I don't think the sort of subtlety you're suggesting is really possible to train into an LLM with our current technology level.

And even though it's a black box, it's not magic. It can't communicate with the outside world in any way other than the ways you provide it, and it can't do anything unless you're actively empowering it to do something.

So I'm not really concerned that DeepSeek has some kind of super secret hidden "programming" that's going to jump out and stab us. I think its only "threat" is what we already see on the surface - it's hugely disruptive to the business plans of companies like OpenAI, who were betting on AI remaining a hugely expensive and centralized affair.

All they have to agree on is that they are getting something they want, that "something" can be different from person to person.

It's not like there aren't alternatives

Things like DeepSeek are exactly the "alternatives" you're talking about here. DeepSeek provides alternatives to American AIs,

or like we need them at all.

People use what they want to use, and lots of people want to use social media. You're on a social media platform right now as we discuss this.